Most 1k on a flight you have seen
#4
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: IAD
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Every darn IAD-SFO (and vice versa) flight... and I take this at least once a month. Always 12/13th on the upgrade list as a 1K. Even when I was GS, this was the worst route to get CPUed on that I have ever traveled .
#7
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Honolulu Harbor
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#8
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#11
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: YYZ
Programs: TK*G, Marriott Gold, Hilton Diamond, IHG Plat
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#12
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Ka ʻĀpala Nui, Nuioka
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That reminds me of a flight out of IAD on an RJ-145 that was part of a FT Do that Lucky/Ben was coordinating. There was a bunch of UA Forum members flying and the poor gate agent was totally unprepared for the hoard that queued up when she called for Boarding Group 1. There's been a few FT-related flights on UA that probably were unusually GS and 1K heavy.
#14
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I don't usually get a chance to count 1Ks, but a year or two back I was on an EWR-SFO flight with 22 GS. Group 1 was over 100 people, and I assume at least half were 1K.
#15
Join Date: Jul 2016
Programs: UA1K | *A Gold
Posts: 767
KIX-SFO earlier this year - at least 30 in the dedicated 1k line on a pretty empty flight with about 6 empty seats in Polaris.
Was visiting some family for the holidays and was surprised to see about a dozen yellow handle wraps on that route and that's just counting the ones that had to green-tag.
Don't forget military can also preboard, so that may have skewed some numbers.
Don't forget military can also preboard, so that may have skewed some numbers.